Darwin's Private Papers Get Released To The Internet

bibekpaudel writes "ScienceDaily reports that a wealth of papers belonging to Charles Darwin have been published on the internet, some for the first time. Some 20,000 items and 90,000 images were posted today to http://darwin-online.org.uk/. The new site is the largest collection of Darwin's work in history, according to organizers from Cambridge University Library 'This release makes his private papers, mountains of notes, experiments, and research behind his world-changing publications available to the world for free,' said John van Wyhe, director of the project. The collection includes thousands of notes and drafts of his scientific writings, notes from the voyage of the Beagle when he began to formulate his controversial theory of evolution, and his first recorded doubts about the permanence of species."

Comments

Re:Controversial?

[mapkinase]

"not in civilised parts of the world, anyway"

Oh, the eternal burden of white man... surviving as a race.

Cue the morans

[Bombula]

Ben Stein and the other semi-literate creationist nutjobs will come crawling out of the woodwork to scour these works for out-of-context soundbites in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ...

Re:Cue the morans

[Bombula]

RTFA before you mod me down: Ben Stein wrote and produced this movie. Scientific American specifically criticizes this film for quoting Darwin out of context. It's front and center on www.sciam.com.

Get a brain indeed, morans.